Auburn's NEW Wide Receiver Room: Who Steps Up in 2026?

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We've already talked about the folks who are supposed to be throwing the football. Let's flip it over and talk about the ones who will likely be catching those passes.
Welcome on everybody in to The Auburn Express TV, all aboard The Auburn Express Powered by The War Rapport. You got Ike Jones in here continuing my process of working through every single room on this team. We've done quarterbacks, we've done running backs. Now we are talking wide receivers, and we will get straight into the conversation if you are here and you are enjoying this content. Make sure you go ahead and hit that like on here. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't done that as well, and share the content with somebody, man. But let's get in here and talk about the wide receiver room for Auburn University. It is a room that has notoriously not had thousand yard receivers since 1999 Ronnie Daniels, we talk about that all the time. This is one of those seasons where we could ask the question again, is there going to be another thousand yard receiver? I don't know that that is a pertinent question for this team or this offense.
So I'm not really going to be too concerned with whether or not one of these receivers is able to eclipse that mark. What I do want to be able to talk about is really as a unit, how well they're going to function, how many yards receiving is going to happen overall in this offense. I'm not necessarily going to do any statistical predictions or projections in this episode, but we will get into that before the season starts as well. So make sure that you stay on the lookout for that episode is coming, I promise you. But we're just going to talk about the personnel that's in the room, the things that they've done so far in their collegiate careers or haven't done so far in areas for improvement, all of those things. Y'all know how we do it right here on these player breakdowns, man. So let's get straight into it. We're going to start with the folks who have some sort of experience, some sort of collegiate playing experience. And so if they've taken a collegiate snap, they're going to be a part of this group. Whether this is not going to be about depth, these are lined up just like I did with the running backs in order of how many snaps they took in the 2025 season. So let's take a look at the wide receiver room. All of the people who have some sort of experience will start that conversation with junior Keshaun Singleton, 6'3, 220, 627 snaps last year for Singleton. Singleton is a guy who is more of a possession type of receiver, but he has some speed, some ability to threaten on the outside. He's going to be an outside receiver. He's not a slot guy, right? So he's going to be one of the big outside receivers for this team coming up into the season. And he's a guy who absolutely has the ability to be a number one type of receiver. I'm trying to look up his PFF stats over here on the side. Last year, he was rated 74 on PFF. His receiving grade is 75.4.
He had 50 receptions on 70 targets last year for 71.4% completion rating. So 71.4% of the stuff that came his way, he caught 881 yards and 17.6 yards per catch with eight touchdowns. This is all according to PFF. So if you see the statistics that look any different anywhere out there, argue with PFF, don't argue with me.
But yeah, so 17.6 yards per reception last year. Last year, he had a combined number of four drops. So of his 70 targets, four drops out there last season. So fairly reliable target as well. He had one big drop. I want to say either Florida or Miami, one of those games I was looking at, man. He had a big drop. Actually, it might have been the Boise Stake. I can't remember what game it was, but he was wide open and dropped the joint. I was like, yo, what is that? Anyway, actually, I can look at it right here on his stats.
Oh, it was the Memphis game that he had that drop in where it was just like, yo, why the joint? He was wide open in that scenario. Anyway, but fairly reliable receiver. He's a guy who I am looking to be one of those. He's one of those guys I feel like has the body type to be ready to play in the SEC, he has the physical ability right now to be an SEC receiver. And he's one of those guys I think people are worried about whether or not he's going to be able to compete at this level despite the fact that he has the physical frame that he does. So I'm not as worried about him. He's a guy that I feel like because of what he is going to be asked to do, he's gonna be a contested catch guy. So he's not gonna be a guy that is suspected to be running wide open a lot, but they're gonna scheme opportunities for him to be open, but he's gonna be a guy that they want to be a contested catch guy. Big body, box them out, go up and get it, kind of receiver strong catch point kind of guy. And there are some guys that are built for that and he seems to be the guy that would be able to be in that sort of mold. And he, again, he has a physicality at 220 pounds to be able to go out there and do all of the things necessary in the blocking. When you look at the blocking from PFF, he is rated at a 59.6 in his run block, which is not phenomenal. But he does have the physicality. The games in which he actually did the worst were actually some of the worst competition.